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SONGS OF THE SOUL

I AM HERE

I roamed alone by ocean’s shoreAnd watched: the wrestling, brawling waves did roarAlive with Thy own restless Life.Thy angry mood and ripply quiver,Thy wrathful vastness made me shiver;I turned away from heated strife.—A kindly waving treeCaught my roving eye so freeTo comfort me with gentler look sublimeThat I did feel was Thine.—I saw the gaugeless mystic sky,And down its valley dark I ran to pryAt Thee, and play with Thee;—I failed to find Thy hiding Body,Yet I felt everywhereThat Thou wert always near,Playing at hide and seek with me,—Receding when I almost touched TheeAs to find Thee I groped blindfold—In ignorant darkness old.

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